Historic and contemporary maps of Greece and Hellas, including political and physical maps, early empires, city plans, and battle plans.

The Peloponnesian League,
500 BC
A map of southern Greece showing the Peloponnesian League during the Peloponnesian War with Athens, indicating the states dependent on Sparta, and the states in alliance with Sparta....

Hellas,
550 BC
A map of the Hellenes settlements in 550 BC before the Persian Wars, including the southern Balkan Peninsula, the islands and coastal regions of the Mare Aegaeum (Aegean Sea), the southern tip of the Italian Peninsula and Sicily. This map is color&nd...

Greece at the Dawn of History,
700 BC
A map of "Greece at the Dawn of History." This map is coloe–coded to show the territories occupied by tribes (yellow), by cities (light orange), by political leagues (dark orange), and the Great States (pink). The boundaries of the De...

Greece and the Greek Colonies,
734–600 BC
Map of the Greek colonies showing which areas were colonized by different Greek races."The Age of the Tyrants coincides very nearly with the era of greatest activity in the founding of new colonies. Thousands, driven from their home, like the Pu...

Plan of Olympia,
776–445 BC
A plan of the ancient Greek sanctuary of Olympia, the site of the Olympic Games. Olympia is near the Peloponnese city of Elis. The plan shows the location of the stadium, gymnasium, temple, and other ancient features, including buildings from the arc...

Hellas or Greece in the Heroic Age,
Circa 500 BC
A map of Hellas during the "Heroic Age" (one of the five Ages of Man according to Hesoid – Gold, Silver, Bronze, Heroic, and Iron ages), the time of demigods and men between the events of the Theogny to Troy. The map is color–co...

General Reference Map of Ancient Greece,
Circa 500 BC
A map of ancient Greece showing districts, cities, and waterways. "Divisions of Greece. — Long arms of the sea divide the Grecian peninsula into three parts, called Northern, Central, and Southern Greece. Northern Greece included the ancie...

Plan of the Acropolis,
Circa 500 BC
"After the Persian wars the Acropolis had ceased to be inhabited, and was appropriated to the worship of Athena and to the other guardian deities of the city."— Smith ...

Plan of Athens,
Circa 500 BC
"Athens is situated about three miles from the sea-coast, in the central plain of Attica. In this plain rise several eminences. Of these the most prominent is a lofty insulated mountain, with a conical peaked summit, now called the hill of St. G...